Archive | March, 2012

The Pirates split up today. They were destroyed on the road by Minnesota and tied at home with Baltimore. On the mound: Erik Bedard pitched five innings vs. the Orioles and was decent. He allowed 4 runs, all in one inning on two consecutive homers. Other than that he was fine, though he only struck […]

Orioles (11-12) at Pirates (8-17-1) 1:05 PM EST–McKechnie Field, Bradenton Radio: 93.7 Here is the MLB.com Gameday Today is the final home spring training game of the season. The Bucs face the Blue Jays on the road tomorrow, then head to Philly for two exhibition games up there before returning to Pittsburgh for Opening Day. […]

Rays (8-16) at Pirates (8-17) 1:05 PM EST–McKechnie Field, Bradenton Radio: 93.7 Here is the MLB.com Gameday The Bucs take on the Rays today at McKechnie. Episode 9 of our podcast went up last night – check that out here. The Pirates will use a bunch of their bullpen arms today, as well as Brad […]

Here’s the ninth episode of the Roundtable Podcast with me, Jon from McEffect, Jim from North Side Notch, and Cory from Three Rivers Burgh Blog. This week we discussed: Who else? Pedro Alvarez Thoughts on recent poor outings by James McDonald and Charlie Morton Bench battle update Predictions for the starting rotation One player from elsewhere in the […]

Rough one for the Bucs today… On the mound: It was a terrible, terrible day for James McDonald. He allowed TEN runs and walked SEVEN in just 3.2 innings. Yikes. Jared Hughes pitched a scoreless inning. Daniel McCutchen allowed one run in 2.1 innings. At the plate: McDonald hit a double, so at least he […]

Twins (15-12) at Pirates (8-16) 1:05 PM EST–McKechnie Field, Bradenton Radio: 93.7 Here is the MLB.com Gameday Bucs and Twins today at McKechnie. You can listen to it on the Fan. The pitching matchup is James McDonald vs. Matt Maloney.

Pirates (8-15) at Rays (7-15) 7:05 PM EST–Charlotte Sports Park, Port Charlotte Audio: MLB.com Here is the MLB.com Gameday The Bucs and Rays face off in a night contest – the last evening game down in Florida. Charlie Morton is on the mound for the Bucs. He’ll go against David Price.

Scott Podsednik hit a walk-off homer in the ninth to win this one for the Phils. At the plate: Pedro Alvarez had a hit! He also struck out three times… Casey McGehee doubled twice. Eric Fryer hit a key double. On the mound: Chris Resop allowed two runs in the first but pitched a 1-2-3 […]